UK Roundup - Radcliffe, Wicked, Drowsy Chaperone
by Jake Brunger
- Nov 6, 2006
Daniel Radcliffe's nude debut announces dates, Wicked breaks records, Connie climbs hills, Drowsy Chaperone eyes a West End transfer and Billy Zane gives Dance Lessons
Webber and Rice Collaborate on New Song
by BWW News Desk
- Sep 27, 2006
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice--who last collaborated on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat--have teamed up once again to pen a song for Connie Fisher's upcoming album
Fisher to Play 8 Shows a Week in London Sound of Music
by BWW News Desk
- Sep 25, 2006
Connie Fisher, who after winning the reality show talent search 'How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria,' will star in the upcoming London revival of The Sound of Music, will play eight performances a week
Emma Williams Signs Off London Sound of Music Revival
by BWW News Desk
- Sep 22, 2006
Emma Williams, the West End star who was previously announced to serve as the alternate for the role of Maria in the upcoming London revival of The Sound of Music, is no longer with the show
Shepherd is Captain von Trapp in London Sound of Music
by BWW News Desk
- Sep 13, 2006
Andrew Lloyd Webber has written on his website that Simon Shepherd will play Captain von Trapp, the authoritarian father softened by love, in the upcoming London revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music.
Michael Ball to Star in English Opera's Kismet Summer '07
by BWW News Desk
- Aug 3, 2006
English National Opera announces that Michael Ball will perform the role of Hajj/Poet in the new production of Robert Wright & George Forrest's KISMET. Based on themes of Alexander Borodin and the play by Edward Knoblock, the book is by Charles Lederer & Luther Davies. This is the first new West End production for almost 30 years.